[sokoloff]

I don’t think the informed technical opinions are nearly as rare as danluu characterizes them to be, to wit: “it’s rare that a thread will have even a single comment that's well-informed”.

I do agree that the farther you get from computer tech, the more frequently you’ll see patently wrong comments (aviation is my eye-roll inducing topic here), but on computer tech topics, I’d say more than 50% of substantive comments have positive correlation with correctness and more than 30% are actively good.

[bryanrasmussen]

I do wonder if the definition of well-informed includes agrees with my viewpoint somewhere in it.

[bombcar]

Look at the examples he picks - I take "well informed" to mean not only knowledgable about the subject matter but also providing an insight beyond a platitude.

[bryanrasmussen]

I think the following does not particularly offer any deep insight:

"Curious why he would need to move to a more prestigious position? Most people realize by their 30s that prestige is a sucker's game; it's a way of inducing people to do things that aren't much fun and they wouldn't really want to do on their own, by lauding them with accolades from people they don't really care about."